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The Congo by Bruce Fish; Becky Durost Fish
Call Number: 967.51 FIS
ISBN: 0791061981
Publication Date: 2001-03-01
Gives a history of the Congo, discussing the days of its European occupation, the culture of its people, and its current status as the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Central and East Africa by Daniel E. Harmon
Call Number: 967 HAR
ISBN: 0791057437
Publication Date: 2001-12-01
Examines the history of East-Central Africa from 1880 to the early years of the twenty-first century, discussing the natural beauty of the region, and tracing the origins of the civil wars that have erupted since the end of European colonial rule.
South Africa by Bruce Fish; Becky Durost Fish
Call Number: 968 FIS
ISBN: 0791056767
Publication Date: 2000-10-01
Examines the past, development, inhabitants, and many cultural aspects of South Africa.
West Africa by Chelsea House Publishing Staff
Call Number: 966 HAR
ISBN: 9780791057483
Publication Date: 2001-10-01
Explores events in the history of West Africa since 1880, focusing on the country's struggles to compete in the modern world as an independent nation following a century of foreign dominion.
Southeast Africa by Chelsea House Publishing Staff
Call Number: 968 HAR
ISBN: 9780791057476
Publication Date: 2002-04-01
Traces the history of five modern African nations, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe, and the island of Madagascar, from 1880 to the present, describing the different paths each nation took to freedom during the early and mid-twentieth century.
Nigeria by Bruce Fisher
Call Number: 966.9 HAR
ISBN: 0791054527
Publication Date: 2000-10-01
Photographs and text look at the past, development, and present culture of Nigeria and its inhabitants.
Sudan by Chelsea House Publishing Staff
Call Number: 962.4 HAR
ISBN: 0791054535
Publication Date: 2001-03-01
Examines the history of Sudan, discussing the importance of the Nile to the African nation, looking at the lives of its people, and considering the challenges the country faces in the future.
Sudan and Southern Sudan by Dorothy Kavanaugh; Robert I. Rotberg (Editor)
Call Number: 962.4 KAV
ISBN: 1422221857
Publication Date: 2012-01-01
Provides information about the history, geography and natural resources, government, economy, people, culture, and cities of Sudan and South Sudan, and includes a calendar of festivals, recipes, and other reference materials.
British Imperialism by P. J. Cain; A. G. Hopkins
Call Number: 325.241 CAI
ISBN: 0582491762
Publication Date: 1995-04-01
European Imperialism, 1860-1914 by Andrew Porter
Call Number: 325.32 POR
ISBN: 0333481046
Publication Date: 1994-01-21
Nature's Government by Richard Drayton
Call Number: 325.341 DRA
ISBN: 0300059760
Publication Date: 2000-08-11
Industrialization and Empire, 1783 to 1914 by Louise Spilsbury
Call Number: 330.9 IND
ISBN: 1933834692
Publication Date: 2010-01-01
Discusses the time period from 1783-1914, covering various empires, religions, cultural movements, developments, political alliances, and civilizations around the world, with detailed maps depicting expansion, migration, populations, and more.
Empire by Niall Ferguson
Call Number: 909.09 FER
ISBN: 0465023290
Publication Date: 2004-04-14
Examines the impact the British empire had on world government, economy, and culture from the seventeenth century to the mid-twentieth century, and explains why the empire's dominance subsided in the last half of the twentieth century.

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Imperialism in North Africa
From the 18th century on, expanding European imperialism across the globe began to pose acute challenges to states and societies throughout Asia and Africa.
South African History Online
The colonisation of Africa was part of a global European process reaching all the continents of the world.
The Scramble for Africa
European explorers and missionaries began mapping the interior of Africa in the nineteenth-century.
The Long Run Effects of the Scramble for Africa
he 'Scramble for Africa' – the artificial drawing of African political boundaries among European powers in the end of the 19th century – led to the partitioning of several ethnicities across newly created African states.
New World Encyclopedia - Scramble for Africa
The Scramble for Africa (or the Race for Africa) was the proliferation of conflicting European claims to African territory during the New Imperialism period, between the 1880s and the start of...
King Leopold's Imperialism and the Origins of the Belgian Colonial Party, 1860–1905
The historiography on the imperialism of Leopold II is hardly a blank page. It was ...

Rwanda

History, Rwanda
A history of Rwanda and Burundi, two African nations run by Western Imperial ...
History of Rwanda
The highlands of Rwanda and Burundi, east of Lake Kivu, are the last part of Africa to be reached by Europeans in the colonial expansion of the late 19th century ...

Sudan

Sudan, Imperialism and the Holy War

DURING THE AGE OF IMPERIALISM, EUROPEAN POWERS ...

S. Africa

South Africa: Diamonds, Gold and Imperialist Intervention
South Africa experienced a transformation between 1870, when the diamond rush to ...
Imperialism and Socialism in the context of S. Africa
Many countries in the world experienced imperialism when they were taken over and ruled by a more powerful country. The main motive for ...
Link to eBook - Imperialism in S. Africa
The Fight Against Imperialism - S. Africa
To understand what effects WW2 had on the nature of the fight against colonialism and imperialism in Africa we need to look at the climate just ...

Ivory Coast

Precolonial Kingdoms - Arrival of Europeans
Until the 19th century, European contact was confined to the coast, where French and Portuguese traders sought ...
Western Africa
... developed the colonies of Dahomey, the Ivory Coast, and French Guinea
Crisis in Ivory Coast
.... coincided with the imperialist war efforts against the governments of Col.